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Bali resort grapples with mounting rabies epidemic

AP - Sunday, November 15

DENPASAR, Indonesia - Working from a tiny mobile clinic, the veterinary team netted and held down a dog plucked from the streets of Indonesia's most popular beach resort and administered a quick injection. More »

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Indonesia deports Greenpeace activists
AP - Sunday, November 15
PEKANBARU, Indonesia - Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction.
Deforestation threatens Indonesia's Papua region
AFP - Friday, November 13
JAYAPURA (AFP) - - Logging and agribusiness is threatening environmental destruction in Indonesia's Papua region, one of the world's last vast wildernesses, local leaders said on Thursday.
Indonesian police deny framing anti-graft chief
AFP - Thursday, November 12
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's police force denied Wednesday it was trying to frame the country's top corruption fighter for murder, after a key state witness testified that he was part of a conspiracy to fabricate evidence.
Iranian accused of smuggling drugs on fake leg
AP - Thursday, November 12
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian customs officials say they have arrested an Iranian with several pounds (more than a kilogram) of methamphetamines taped to his prosthetic limb.
Indonesia police faked evidence on graft fighter: witness
AFP - Wednesday, November 11
JAKARTA (AFP) - - A former top Indonesian graft fighter on trial for organising a gangland-style murder burst into tears in court Tuesday after a key witness said he had been convinced by police to fabricate evidence.
Indonesian forests on frontline of climate debate
AFP - Tuesday, November 10
TELUK MERANTI, Indonesia (AFP) - - With the approach of global climate talks in Copenhagen, activists are hoping to draw world attention to their fight to save the last tropical forests on Indonesia's Sumatra island.
1 dead, dozens injured by strong Indonesian quake
AP - Tuesday, November 10
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful undersea earthquake killed one person, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of houses on a remote island in central Indonesia, officials said Monday.
Rain-triggered landslides kill 14 in Indonesia
AP - Tuesday, November 10
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said Monday.
Indonesia quake kills at least one
Reuters - Monday, November 9
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A strong earthquake struck Indonesia's Sumbawa island early on Monday morning, killing at least one person and injuring around 80 after damaging homes, schools and mosques, a police official said.
Two killed in Indonesian quake: report
AFP - Monday, November 9
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Two people were killed and dozens injured after a strong quake with a magnitude of 6.7 rocked the Indonesian island of Sumbawa on Monday, officials and the state news agency Antara said.
Earthquake measuring 6.7 reported near Indonesia
AP - Monday, November 9
NEW YORK - A strong earthquake was reported in the ocean off Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Hundreds join anti-corruption rally in Indonesia
AFP - Sunday, November 8
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Hundreds of Indonesians gathered in the capital Jakarta on Sunday to protest perceived moves to cripple the country's once-powerful corruption watchdog.
Sri Lanka boat people leader a known trafficker: Colombo
AFP - Saturday, November 7
COLOMBO (AFP) - - The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied.
Red Cross suspends work in Indonesia's Aceh
AFP - Friday, November 6
BANDA ACEH (Indonesia) (AFP) - - The Red Cross suspended its activities in the Indonesian province of Aceh for a day on Friday after one of its German workers was shot and wounded by gunmen on a motorbike.
Indonesia extends Australia refugee boat's stay
AFP - Friday, November 6
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia extended by a week on Friday a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.
Top detective, prosecutor quit in Indonesia wiretap scandal
AFP - Friday, November 6
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's top detective and deputy chief prosecutor quit Thursday after wiretap phone recordings implicated them in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators.
German Red Cross worker shot in Indonesia's Aceh
AP - Friday, November 6
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province.
Indonesia's top detective resigns over graft scandal
AFP - Thursday, November 5
JAKARTA (AFP) - - Indonesia's chief detective resigned Thursday after being implicated in an alleged plot to falsely imprison anti-graft investigators.
Indonesian officials resign in corruption scandal
AP - Thursday, November 5
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Two of Indonesia's leading law enforcement officials suddenly stepped down Thursday to soothe a tide of public rage over an escalating corruption scandal that has damaged the nation's struggle against crippling graft.